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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The $15k a year I spend in daycare. Next year when public school is available, the cost of aftercare, so what, $300 a month.

Everything else a SAHM does working parents have to take care of too, so you get nothing for cleaning, cooking, running errands, etc. [/quote]

FWIW, I think OP is a troll trying to stir up the "value of a SAHM" debate.  But I'll bite and agree with PP that WOHPs do most of the same stuff as SAHPs.  No one is going to call a SAHM a martyr for doing the laundry, grocery shopping, and running a vacuum.  I do all that stuff and work a 40 hour a week job.

Like others said, the benefits to staying at home are intangible.  I'd love to be a SAHM in this area, but can't afford to comfortably live on just DH's salary.  Most of my friends who SAH have very wealthy husbands and also have maids, frequent babysitters, etc. so I don't exactly think they're "sacrificing" by staying home.  Of course, some women don't make enough money to justify paying daycare costs, so they probably are sacrificing a few years of work experience to stay home.

In sum, I think it's impossible to make a generic statement about the value of a SAHP.  I certainly don't think a SAHM is as valuable as many other 100k professions out there, not to mention you don't pay into SS or a 401k as a SAHP.[/quote]

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